Bug 170288

Summary:	poor error handling for DNS issue
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Joe Orton <jorton>
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Pradeep Kilambi <pkilambi>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Ken Reilly <kreilly>
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Version:	4.0	CC:	tsanders
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Description Joe Orton 2005-10-10 15:36:30 UTC

Description of problem:
When xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com will not resolve, up2date prints an entirely
unhelpful error message five times before failing:

https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC foo
https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC foo
https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC foo
https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC foo
https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC foo
Error communicating with server. The message was:
Name or service not known

up2date-4.4.50-4

Comment 2 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 16:57:10 UTC

Thank you for submitting this issue for consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The release for which you requested us to review is now End of Life. 
Please See https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

If you would like Red Hat to re-consider your feature request for an active release, please re-open the request via appropriate support channels and provide additional supporting details about the importance of this issue.